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81. | | Title: Merchants and reform in Livorno, 1814-1868 Author: LoRomer, David G Published: University of California Press, 1987 Subjects: History | European HistorySimilar Items | 82. | | Title: American bison: a natural historyAuthor: Lott, Dale F Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Organismal Biology | Mammalogy | Animals | Animal Behavior | Science | Natural HistoryPublisher's Description: American Bison combines the latest scientific information and one man's personal experience in an homage to one of the most magnificent animals to have roamed America's vast, vanished grasslands. Dale F. Lott, a distinguished behavioral ecologist who was born on the National Bison Range and has stud . . . [more]Similar Items | 83. | | Title: Urban design downtown: poetics and politics of formAuthor: Loukaitou-Sideris, Anastasia 1958- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Urban Studies | Economics and Business | Social Science | Architecture | SociologyPublisher's Description: The corporate downtown, with its multitude of social dilemmas and contradictions, is the focus of this well-illustrated volume. How are downtown projects conceived, scripted, produced, packaged, and used, and how has all this changed during the twentieth century? The authors of Urban Design Downtown . . . [more]Similar Items | 84. | | Title: Creating the Cold War university: the transformation of StanfordAuthor: Lowen, Rebecca S 1959- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: History | Education | Technology and Society | Military History | Californian and Western History | History and Philosophy of Science | California and the West | Intellectual History | United States History | United States HistoryPublisher's Description: The "cold war university" is the academic component of the military-industrial-academic complex, and its archetype, according to Rebecca Lowen, is Stanford University. Her book challenges the conventional wisdom that the post-World War II "multiversity" was created by military patrons on the one han . . . [more]Similar Items | 85. | | | 86. | | Title: Beyond the neon lights: everyday Shanghai in the early twentieth centuryAuthor: Lu, Hanchao Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: History | Sociology | China | Asian History | Urban Studies | Cultural AnthropologyPublisher's Description: How did ordinary people live through the extraordinary changes that have swept across modern China? How did peasants transform themselves into urbanites? How did the citizens of Shanghai cope with the epic upheavals - revolution, war, and again revolution - that shook their lives? Even after decades . . . [more]Similar Items | 87. | | Title: A Renaissance court: Milan under Galeazzo Maria SforzaAuthor: Lubkin, Gregory Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: History | Renaissance HistoryPublisher's Description: Ambitious, extravagant, progressive, and sexually notorious, Galeazzo Maria Sforza inherited the ducal throne of Milan in 1466, at the age of twenty-two. Although his reign ended tragically only ten years later, the young prince's court was a dynamic community where arts, policy making, and the pano . . . [more]Similar Items | 88. | | Title: California's salmon and steelhead: the struggle to restore an imperiled resource Author: Lufkin, Alan Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Environmental Studies | Ecology | California and the West | Marine and Freshwater SciencesPublisher's Description: Millions upon millions of salmon and steelhead once filled California streams, providing a plentiful and sustainable food resource for the original peoples of the region. But over the years, dams and irrigation diversions have reduced natural spawning habitat from an estimated 6,000 miles to fewer t . . . [more]Similar Items | 89. | | Title: Territories of grace: cultural change in the seventeenth-century Diocese of Grenoble Author: Luria, Keith P Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: History | European History | Christianity | French StudiesPublisher's Description: Territories of Grace offers a sophisticated model of cultural change in early modern rural society, by examining the religion of villagers in the French diocese of Grenoble during the Counter-Reformation. Keith P. Luria describes the encounter of village and official forms of piety, arguing that his . . . [more]Similar Items | 90. | | Title: The life of a text: performing the Rāmcaritmānas of Tulsidas Author: Lutgendorf, Philip Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Religion | Hinduism | South Asia | Cultural AnthropologyPublisher's Description: The Life of a Text offers a vivid portrait of one community's interaction with its favorite text - the epic Ramcaritmanas - and the way in which performances of the epic function as a flexible and evolving medium for cultural expression. Anthropologists, historians of religion, and readers intereste . . . [more]Similar Items | 91. | | Title: Surviving through the days: translations of Native California stories and songs: a California Indian reader Author: Luthin, Herbert W 1954- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Anthropology | American Studies | Native American Studies | American LiteraturePublisher's Description: This anthology of treasures from the oral literature of Native California, assembled by an editor admirably sensitive to language, culture, and history, will delight scholars and general readers alike. Herbert Luthin's generous selection of stories, anecdotes, myths, reminiscences, and songs is draw . . . [more]Similar Items | 92. | | Title: Divine passions: the social construction of emotion in India Author: Lynch, Owen M 1931- Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Anthropology | South Asia | HistoryPublisher's Description: Naked holy men denying sexuality and feeling; elderly people basking in the warmth and security provided by devoted and attentive family members; fastidious priests concerned solely with rules of purity and minutiae of ritual practice; puritanical moralists concealing women and sexuality behind purd . . . [more]Similar Items | 93. | | Title: Dangerous intimacy: the untold story of Mark Twain's final years Author: Lystra, Karen Published: University of California Press, 2004 Subjects: Literature | Autobiographies and Biographies | Twain | American Literature | American StudiesPublisher's Description: The last phase of Mark Twain's life is sadly familiar: Crippled by losses and tragedies, America's greatest humorist sank into a deep and bitter depression. It is also wrong. This book recovers Twain's final years as they really were - lived in the shadow of deception and prejudice, but also in the . . . [more]Similar Items |
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